Summary of Richard Lloyd Parry's People Who Eat Darkness

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#1 Tim Blackman had saved his daughter’s life when she was twenty-one months old. She had experienced a febrile convulsion, a muscle spasm caused by fever and dehydration, which had caused her to swallow her own tongue, blocking off her breathing.

#2 When Lucie was born, her parents experienced deep, but complicated, happiness. But Jane’s father was a broken man after his wife died, and she had to be brave.

#3 Jane left school at fifteen. She took a secretarial course and found a job at a big advertising agency. When she was nineteen, she traveled to Mallorca with a girlfriend and stayed there for six months, cleaning cars for a living.

#4 Tim had a business partner and they began developing property. In 1982, the family moved to the commuter town of Sevenoaks, in Kent. Here, their period of hardship was over, and Jane was able to create the childhood she had always wanted for her children.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: May 5, 2022
• ISBN: 9798822504882

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Contents

Insights from Chapter 1

Insights from Chapter 2

Insights from Chapter 3

Insights from Chapter 4

Insights from Chapter 5

Insights from Chapter 6

Insights from Chapter 1

#1

Tim Blackman had saved his daughter’s life when she was twenty-one months old. She had experienced a febrile convulsion, a muscle spasm caused by fever and dehydration, which had caused her to swallow her own tongue, blocking off her breathing.

#2

When Lucie was born, her parents experienced deep, but complicated, happiness. But Jane’s father was a broken man after his wife died, and she had to be brave.

#3

Jane left school at fifteen. She took a secretarial course and found a job at a big advertising agency. When she was nineteen, she traveled to Mallorca with a girlfriend and stayed there for six months, cleaning cars for a living.

#4

Tim had a business partner and they began developing property. In 1982, the family moved to the commuter town of Sevenoaks, in Kent. Here, their period of hardship was over, and Jane was able to create the childhood she had always wanted for her children.

#5

Lucie was a grown-up, conscientious girl with a childish earnestness that made adults smile. She was always careful and tidy, and she loved dolls. Her sister, by contrast, was stroppy and prone to tantrums.

#6

Lucie’s teenage years were marked by illness, which she eventually recovered from. Her mother, Jane, had a strong belief in the powers of the mind, and she frequently found herself accurately foreseeing imminent events.

#7

The breakdown of the marriage between Tim and Jane occurred in November 1995, when Jane received a telephone call from a man accusing Tim of sleeping with his wife. Tim admitted the affair, and Jane demanded that he move out immediately.

#8

In 1997, Tim’s company went into liquidation, and there was hardly any money left. Jane and the three children spent Christmas on their own in the big Edwardian house in Sevenoaks.

#9

The Blackman family was torn apart when Jane and Rupert divorced. The family was liberal and permissive when it came to teenage relationships, and Lucie became the mother figure when Jane was the child.

#10

Lucie had a love of luxury and comfort, which made life as a student unappealing to her. She instead worked in a pizza restaurant after her exams and at a French investment bank in the City of London.

#11

Lucie worked for a year at SocGen, and then applied for British Airways as an air stewardess. She began traveling, but only if she could do it with a guaranteed degree of comfort and style.

#12

Lucie was a woman who was obsessed with order and method. She would write down lists of jobs to be done and tasks to be accomplished, like incantations to keep inertia at bay.

#13

The Rules, a popular American guide to dating and romance, set out a kind of emotional crash diet, a return to traditional, prefeminist modes of courtship in which sustained and energetic wooing was required of a man before he could expect any reward.

#14

Lucie was extremely popular with men, but she was also extremely naive about the way men worked. She had a tendency to fall in love with men who quickly discarded her, and she would spend hours looking for her car or her boyfriend when she returned home from a night out.

#15

After the pub incident,